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Slow reminder to delete old emails to save water in the United Kingdom. (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago

Data storage is a tiny, TINY fraction of a datacenter's power budget. That's just BS "blame the consumer" type of vapid advice from the start.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

I mean, the biggest joke of this is Starmer has been enthusiastically promoting new datacenter construction

Vantage Data Centres – which is working to build one of Europe’s largest data centre campuses in Wales – plans to invest over £12 billion in data centres across the UK – creating over 11,500 jobs in the process.

Kyndryl – the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider and a leading IT consultancy – announces plans to create up to 1,000 AI-related jobs in Liverpool over the next three years. This new tech hub will share the government’s ambition to roll AI out across the country to help grow the economy and foster the next generation of talent.

Nscale – one of the UK’s leading AI companies – has announced a $2.5 billion investment to support the UK’s data centre infrastructure over the next three years. They have also signed a contract to build the largest UK sovereign AI data centre in Loughton, Essex by 2026.

How the fuck is deleting your email going to compete with the national government throwing billions in subsidies after these AI behemoths?